Andrew Mason, the irreverent programmer and musician who turned a failed social action site into the daily deals phenomenon Groupon , was dismissed Thursday as chief executive.
A day earlier, Groupon reported weak fourth- quarter...

9:06 p.m. | Updated Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America. The appointment of Ms. Mayer is consider a coup for...

Parliament refused on Friday to accept the resignation of its leader, Volodymyr M. Lytvyn, and instead adjourned for the summer, leaving uncertain the fate of a contentious bill that would allow local and regional governments to grant official status...

ATLANTA -- N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell said Tuesday that he expected to eventually make public the evidence the league has gathered showing that New Orleans Saints players were paid bounties for injuring opponents. He had no comment on the...

9:07 p.m. | Updated The Philadelphia Flyers awoke Monday with the improbable task of figuring out how to rebound from a 3-1 series deficit against the Devils in the Eastern Conference semifinals. They went to sleep Monday needing to find a way to...

Guillermo Mota, a relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants, was given a 100-game suspension Monday after testing positive for clenbuterol, a performance-enhancing substance banned by Major League Baseball. In 2006, two weeks after the Mets...

The unpredictable nature of this season's Stanley Cup playoffs asserted itself yet again last week when the Nashville Predators, who were trailing Phoenix by two games to none and being solidly outplayed, suspended their top two scorers for Game 3 of...

Dewey & LeBoeuf, the corporate law firm fighting for survival amid partner defections and heavy debt, ousted its former chairman from the firm's management on Sunday and ended talks with a potential merger partner, according to an internal memo. ...